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Asad ad-Dīn Shīrkūh bin Shādhī (; ), (died 23 March 1169) was a Kurdish mercenary commander in service of the Zengid dynasty, then the Fatimid Caliphate and uncle of Saladin. His military and diplomatic efforts in Egypt were a key factor in establishing the Ayyubid dynasty in that country.

thumb|Shawar receives messengers from King Amalric '''Shawar ibn Mujir al-Sa'di' (; died 18 January 1169) was the de facto'' ruler of Fatimid Egypt, as its vizier, from December 1162 until his assassination in 1169 by the general Shirkuh, the uncle of the future Ayyubid leader Saladin, with whom he was engaged in a three-way power struggle against the Crusader Amalric I of Jerusalem. Shawar was notorious for continually switching alliances, allying first with one side, and then the other, and even ordering the burning of his own capital city, Fustat, just so that the enemy could not have it.

Grand Master of the Knights Templar

Ruler of Cilician Armenia

Belgian noblewoman

Burislev (Boleslaw; died 1172/73) was a Swedish pretender for the throne, belonging to the House of Sverker. He acted in concert with his kinsman Kol against King Canute I of Sweden, then head of the House of Eric. The two pretenders, who were brothers, half-brothers, or uncle and nephew, may never have controlled much more than the province of Östergötland, which was the base of the dynasty. Burislev is believed either to have been murdered by King Canute's men, or to have fled to Poland in or before 1173.

Patriarch of Constantinople

Khorasani writer and Islamic jurist

German theologian

Roman Catholic archbishop; Chancellor of the Kingdom of Sicily

Anglo-Norman Bishop of Ely, Treasurer of England (1100–1169)

Governor of Damascus

Pretender to the Norwegian throne

(1142-1169)

Bishop of Chichester

Italian geographer (12th century)

Norman chronicler